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  Beware the circling helicopter parents

  Aug 20 2008:

  Is parental interference every step of the way anything new?

• Balls shock to challenged schools

  Aug 20 2008:

  Letters: As a governor of Woodside, I can confirm what a shock Ed Balls's pronouncements have been.

• Reading music is a basic skill that all GCSE students should learn

  Aug 20 2008:

  Response: Denying youngsters the chance to learn staff notation disempowers them, says Elliott Randall

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• Warning over teacher overwork

  Aug 19 2008:

  Headteachers and teachers in schools in England and Wales are still working "unacceptably" long hours despite a national agreement to reduce their workload

• Everyone loves the new kid in school

  Aug 19 2008:

  Even the Tories seem to have fallen for cooperative trusts. Anna Bawden reports

• Can we see an end to the annual A-level farce?

  Aug 19 2008:

  Focus on one particular qualification, taken by a minority, suggests that other courses and exams are not worth taking, says Mike Baker

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• Which road will you take?

  Aug 19 2008:

  Now you've got your GCSE results, it's time to plan the next step. There are many options still open to you, writes Peter Kingston

• Teachers distrust CCTV in the classroom

  Aug 18 2008:

  Nearly a quarter of teachers are worried about hidden surveillance cameras in their schools, according to research

• Jim Knight on plans to close schools that fail to get a third of pupils through five GCSEs

  Audio (4min 31sec): Aug 18 2008: Schools minister Jim Knight on plans to close schools that fail to get a third of pupils through five good GCSEs

• The American school where teachers carry a pen, a ruler and ... a gun

  Aug 18 2008:

  Texan farming school defends introduction of guns amid criticism from teaching unions

• Education: Government damaging troubled schools, say unions

  Aug 18 2008:

  National Challenge list is a stigma, teachers allege as closures may follow this week's GCSE results

• How minister's remarks have made a struggle to succeed even tougher

  Aug 18 2008:

  Woodside High's ability to attract children slipping out of reach following Ed Ball's remarks

• Results row looms as A grades soar at GCSE

  Aug 17 2008:

  'Too easy' dispute resurfaces as experts predict pass rates to rise and one in five grades will be A or A*

• Education: Capita moves to take over £156m Sats contract after US firm is fired

  Aug 16 2008:

  Controversial data-handling firm in the frame after ETS is fired for late delivery of tests

• Let's celebrate all education success

  Aug 16 2008:

  Letters: Could we please get away from this idea that an A-level is the must-have achievement for all school leavers?

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